M.F.A. 2008 Interdisciplinary Arts & Media, Columbia College Chicago
B.M. 1985 Music in Composition, Northern Illinois University
M.M. candidate 1986-86 Music in Composition, Northern Illinois University

Professional Experience

2008-Present —Chair, Visual Communications Department, International Academy of Design & Technology, Chicago, Illinois
Promoted in spring 2008 to manage and lead 525-student department comprised of five program tracks: Video & Animation, Graphic Design, Multimedia & Web Design, Advertising Design, and Advertising Communications. Duties include class scheduling, budgeting, full-time and adjunct faculty management (interviewing, training, mentoring, hiring, assessing), maintaining regulatory compliance standards, managing faculty advisors, advising, and leading one of four school student persistence teams to proactively manage the student drop budget. Long-term projects include committee involvement, community outreach (scholarship, internship, and student contest opportunities) and program development. Undergraduate-level instruction: Senior Design Project, Graphic Design III, and Web Design III. Led department through Accrediting Council of Independent Colleges and Schools (ACICS) reaccreditation visit, receiving zero citations.

2007-2008 —Program Chair, Graphic Design, Advertising Design, Advertising Communications, International Academy of Design & Technology, Chicago, Illinois
Daily management of three program tracks within the Visual Communications Department, including class scheduling, full-time and adjunct faculty management (interviewing, hiring and conducting performance appraisal, etc.), maintaining regulatory compliance standards, curriculum development, and managing departmental budget. Undergraduate-level instruction: Streaming Media, Portfolio Development, Professional Practices, and Junior Portfolio.

2006-2007 — Full-time Faculty/Advisor, International Academy of Design & Technology, Chicago, Illinois
Undergraduate-level instruction: Portfolio Development for Visual Communications, Junior Portfolio, Digital Prepress I & II, Web Design I & II, Advertising Design. Academic advising, focusing on retention and scholastic performance.

2003-2006 — Part-time Faculty, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
Undergraduate and graduate-level instruction: Advanced Digital Prepress, Interface/Interaction: Designing Experiences, Interface and Structure: Web Design. Six-time graduate critique panelist.

2003-2006 — Adjunct Instructor, International Academy of Design & Technology, Chicago, Illinois
Undergraduate-level instruction: Portfolio Development, Digital Prepress, Web Design, Electronic Illustration, Layout for Electronic Media, Internship Advisor. Active participant in curriculum development.

1985-1986 — Teaching Graduate Assistant, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois
Instructor of record, Electronic Music Composition, fall and spring semesters.

Exhibitions, Screenings, Performances

(*solo shows indicated by asterisk)

2008
Breaking Away, Screening, Gallery 37 Center for the Arts—CenterSpace Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
M.F.A. Thesis Exhibition, , Media Installation, Columbia College Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

2007
Connected Images, , Screening, La Lumiere School, Michigan City, Indiana

2006
*Sculptural Images, , Media Installation, Columbia College Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
IMAGe Unit, Screening and Performance, Hot House, Chicago, Illinois

2005
Dramatic Images, Enriqué Baba, Performance, Prop Theatre, Chicago, Illinois
Movement Images, Performance, Hamlin Park Studio Theater, Chicago, Illinois

2001
*Itchy Pet, , Internet Radio Simulcast, MP3.com/Itchypet.com

1999
Itchy Pet, , ItchyPet.com/UncleBuzz.com

1995
*Every Good Boy, Farewell, Performance, Double Door, Chicago, Illinois

1994
Every Good Boy/Cracker, Performance, Metro, Chicago, Illinois
*Every Good Boy, Radio Simulcast Performance, CFXJ, Toronto, Ontario
*Every Good Boy, Double Door, Performance, Chicago, Illinois
*Every Good Boy, Radio Simulcast Performance, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri
Every Good Boy/Red Red Meat, Performance, Metro, Chicago, Illinois

1993
Every Good Boy/Uptighty, Performance, Czar Bar, Chicago, Illinois
*Every Good Boy, WHPK Radio Interview and Radio Simulcast Performance, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
Every Good Boy/Shrimp Boat, Performance, Empty Bottle, Chicago, Illinois

1992
*Every Good Boy, Performance, Metro, Chicago, Illinois

1987
*Strange Badness 2, Installation and Performance, Punto Cinco, DeKalb, Illinois

1986
*Strange Badness, Installation and Performance, Punto Cinco, DeKalb, Illinois

Bibliography

(Reviews/Articles/Interviews)

1996
Jonathan Brandmeier, Interview, WLUP Radio, Chicago, June 4, 1996

1993
David Rothschild, Home Front, Chicago Tribune, Friday, July 9, 1993
Every Good Boy, Interview, WHPK Radio, University of Chicago, July 31, 1993

1992
L. Basil O’Connor, Alternative Press, July 1992
David Shirly, Option, July 1992
Deborah Orr, Jackpot, College Music Journal, April 10, 1992

1991
Lang Thompson, Reviews, Option, March/April 1991, Page 97

1990
Rudy Vanderlans, Sound Design, Émigré, Issue 16, 1990, pages 22-24

Published Works

(Commissioned Media Works)

2001
Joshua Tree. Contribution: Music composition, performance (in collaboration). Émigré.

1999
Palm Desert. Contribution: Music composition, performance (in collaboration), audio remixing and mastering. Émigré.

1998
Dreaming Out Louder. Contribution: Music composition, performance (voice, alto saxophone, computers), lyrics, production. Émigré.

1993
Get Your La-La’s Out! Contribution: Music composition, performance (voice, guitars, computers), lyrics, co-production. Minty Fresh.

1992
Baling Wire and Bubble Gum. Contribution: Music composition, performance, lyrics, co-production. Émigré.

1989
Social Graces. Contribution: Music composition and performance, lyrics, co-production. Émigré

Technical Skills

Operation of Standard Definition (SD), High-Speed, and Hi-Definition (HD) video cameras; Linear & non-linear video capture & editing (Final Cut Studio, Adobe Premier); Motion graphics (Adobe After Effects, Motion); DVD Authoring (DVD Studio Pro); Audio recording, production and mastering (Pro Tools, Logic, Soundtrack Pro, Max/MSP, Reason); Highly proficient in Mac & PC graphic design and layout applications, including QuarkXPress, Adobe CS3 Suite. Fluent using (x)HTML and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) to design/create web based applications.

Professional Organizations

2001-2008
AIGA (American Institute of Graphic Arts)

2008
CAA (College Art Association)

2000-2007
Graphic Artists Guild

2004-2006
American Graphics Institute

Professional Service

2008-Present
Founding Member, Portfolio Center Task Force, IADT-Chicago
Outreach Organizer, Navteq/IADT Video Contest and Scholarship, IADT-Chicago
Committee Member, Curriculum Redesign: Game Production, Career Education Corporation

2007-present
Member, Student Success Committee, IADT-Chicago
Reporting Manager, Institutional Effectiveness Plan (IEP), IADT-Chicago
Committee Member, Imagine Fashion Show, IADT-Chicago
Member, Orientation Sub-Committee, IADT-Chicago

2005-present
Portfolio Scholarship Panelist, IADT-Chicago

2001-Present
Publisher & Managing Editor, Burning Word Magazine (www.burningword.com)

2005-2006
IMAGe Unit Student Organization Representative, Columbia College Chicago

Professional Practice

2001-Present
Principal, Deerly Creative, Chicago, Illinois

1999-2001
Senior Web Designer, Newcity Communications, Inc., Chicago, Illinois

1997-1999
Web Designer, Spectrum Communications, Elk Grove Village, Illinois

1992-2001
Art Director, Bapes & Associates, Oak Park, Illinois

1990-1992
Graphic Designer, Northwestern Printing House, Chicago, Illinois

1988-1989
Junior Designer, Kym Abrams Design, Chicago, Illinois

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Time, Through Windows explores the perception of time, using the passage from spring to winter as a metaphor for the artist’s father’s cycle of life—from child to elder. Music and spoken dialog work in combination with video to create a six-piece narrative that invites the audience into an intimate durational experience. This work, presented as a circular grouping of six audio/video pairs, acts as a vehicle for the audience to contemplate that which might normally go overlooked.

This is a diaristic piece that falls somewhere in the middle between the political diaries of video artists such as Dara Birnbaum, Chantal Ackerman or Krzysztof Wodiczko and the lyrical works of Bill Viola, Mary Lucier, etc. Erik transformed his father’s life stories, told at the end of his life and divided them into six segments or periods of time. At each monitor, the viewer hears one small segment of this life. However, as poignant as they are, it is the visual component that provides the heart-break. Erik chose to film a nondescript comer of Chicago, complete with weedy, empty lot, a fence and a stop light for over six months. As the time goes by we see the seasons move from spring to winter, small changes in the urban landscape, cars and people move at random; always dominated by that stop light-a perfect sundial and metaphor for the relentless march of time. Although this is a very personal piece, it challenges the viewer to enter and contemplate their own memories. Furthermore, because viewers may enter and exit at any point, everyone’s experience of the stories will be different, thus creating a form of unique and unexpected “interactivity”.
Suzanne Cohan-Lange, Founder & Chair Emeritus, Interdisciplinary Arts Department, Columbia College Chicago

Six Months in the Making

This work was filmed continuously from July 1 to December 31, 2007. The footage was then compressed at a ten-to-one ratio, producing twelve hours of video, moving in two-second increments of time. The score was composed to sync to the “ticks” of this footage, timed at 60 or 120 beats per second.

In gallery installation, six black AutoPoles each support a video/audio pair. Audio plays through focused speakers that allow the audience to listen to each narrative in open-air isolation. The black fixture rising up from floor to ceiling is strikingly similar in appearance to the lone streetlight in the work.

Erik Deerly’s “Time, Through Windows” is an installation of great quiet authority. The deceptive simplicity of the design, which actually was kind of a feat of technological coordination, particularly for that exhibition space, created a place for listening in a world and in a room where listening is becoming impossible. Erik’s working method is assured and diligent; he knew what he wanted and he achieved it. The decision to allow the structure to be part of the installation, instead of a more cloaked and hidden effect, was an interesting counterpoint to the quiet understatement of the video images. Actually, Erik has been making work of this quality for some time; this piece was not a leap forward by any means. But the maturity of his vision has been consistent, and his concerns about death and time are adult and quietly thoughtful.
Jenny Magnus, Artistic Director, Curious Theatre Branch

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